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SHIGE SONG, Ph.D.

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■ Professor Song's research on famine and reproductive health was funded by PSC-CUNY Research Award Program.

■ Both Science and Nature covered news stories about Professor Song's most recent research article on famine and sex ratio at birth (published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. )

■ Professors Song and Burgard (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) received the 2010 Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship in Population Award from the Sociology of Population Section of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

Shige Song (Ph.D., Sociology, UCLA)

Professor Song is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Queens College of the City University of New York, Assistant Professor of CUNY Graduate Center’s Certificate Program in Demography, and Faculty Associate of CUNY Institute of Demographic Research (CIDR).

His research focuses on  health and demographic consequences of developmental programming (developmental origins of health and disease), health disparities, early child development, quantitative methodology.

NEW PAPERS

■ Song, Shige. “Identifying the Intergenerational Effects of the 1959-1961 Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine on Infant Mortality.” Under Review. (PDF)

■ Song, Shige "Assessing the Impact of Prenatal and Early Life Exposure to Famine on Subsequent Involuntary Fetal Loss: Evidence from the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China.” Under Review. (PDF)

■ Song, Shige. “Does Prenatal Famine Exposure Influence Female Fecundity? Evidence from the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China.” Under Review. (PDF)

■ 2012  Song, Shige. "Does Famine Influence Sex Ratio at Birth? Evidence from the 1959-1961 Great Leap Forward Famine in China." Proceedings of the Royal Society B. (PDF)

■ 2011     Song, Shige, and Sarah A. Burgard. “Dynamics of Inequality: Mother’s Education and Infant Mortality in China, 1970-2001.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 52(3):349-364. (PDF)

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